ADD A DASH OF GOOD LINES AND GOOD TIMES

Photo: “Under The Tuscan Sundown”

I am living in a small Tuscan town. The other night we were going to attend an opera – outside – under the evening sky. Me? I prefer American Country – but still, I thought it was a nice idea…Then came the rains and the whole thing was cancelled. So my wife and I stayed home and searched for something to watch on TV. For several years now, I have found it difficult to find anything new which seems to have been written  with a good script and or a few good lines. I thought I would give you a short list of good lines from the time when movies were movies:

1. “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.” GWTW, 1939
2. “If you want me, just whistle.You know how to whistle don’t you? You just put your lips together and blow.” Lauren Bacall, “To Have And Have Not”, 1944
3. Dave Bowman: “Open the pod bay doors, HAL”:  (in response; “I’m afraid I can’t do that. This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it.”)  2001, “A Space Odyssey”, 1968
4. “I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.” (…and “I don’t tell the truth, I tell what ought to be the truth.”) Blanche Dubois in “Streetcar Named Desire” – Tennessee Williams, 1947
5. “Everything is going to be alright in the end and if everything is not alright – then it is not the end.” -“The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel” , 2001
6. Butch: “Kid, there’s something I ought to tell you. I never shot anybody before.”…Response from Sundance: “One hell of a time to tell me!” -Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid, 1969
7. “God changes his appearance every second. Blessed is the man who can recognize him in all his disguises.”
   ― Nikos Kazantzakis, “Zorba the Greek”, 1964
8. “She needs watching, that one. We can’t trust anybody, especially a female.) -Fagin, “Oliver Twist”,  (movie), 1922

You don’t find lines like these in a show about coaches coaching soccer teams…but maybe that’s just me…until next time…

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C. E. Metzger

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